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https://www.tpr.org/news/2024-08-31/17-guardsmen-have-died-on-gov-greg-abbotts-controversial-border-mission-soldiers-speak-out

“When we requested that we stop training because someone had died … we were told to 'shut the f— up, sit there and keep doing your job' as if nothing happened,” the guard member told TPR. “We had made a request for chest seals, trauma supplies like tourniquets — stuff like that. … We were told that there was 'no need for those supplies at this time.' So they were denied. … This is immediately following a servicemember being shot in the back and dying.”

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[–] Dolores@hexbear.net 9 points 2 months ago (1 children)

the complaints are gold, oh no they don't have bodyarmor? whatever will these not-getting-shot-at guys do? no hot food? are they too fucking dense to set a fire? they're out here getting paid ridiculous money to wander around and dig fences 10 minutes from a taco bell and they're so nonplussed by it they're claiming to get PTSD

[–] Belly_Beanis@hexbear.net 6 points 2 months ago (1 children)

No no no you don't understand....it takes three grown ass men armed with fully automatic weapons to guard a section of razorwire set up along a river bed in case of a potential attack child making its way across the spot where their buddy died and destroying the Taco Bell with a tactical nuke developed by ISIS. Don't let the terrorists win!

[–] infuziSporg@hexbear.net 1 points 2 months ago

Legit question for rural Americans: what if 30-50 feral children cross the river into my county while my hogs are playing?